The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-30
Probability that SextOn's Assertion that the
Leagues Headquarters Would Be Trans
ferred to England May Be Verified.
The French Mobilization Project Re-
jected Because of Its Great Cost.
Flat Denial of the Rumor that the King of
Servia Intends Resigning-Cardinal Man
ming Gives the Newspapers Scoding.
THE IRISH LEAGUE.

Systematic Arrangements for Making Fight
Against the Coercion Law.
Special to the indianapolis Journar.
LONDON, June 2a--As the time of the newt
able passage and remorseless enforcement of the
crimes bill draws near, the Irish National
League, against which organization the bill is
chiefly aimed, and whose suppression is really
the foundation stone upon which the act rests,
is actively engaged in devsing and executing
means of averting the crushing weight of
coercion which threatens its life, and seeking
not only to survive the coming storm, but to
continue its work during the prevalence of the
dread visitation. To the National League more
than to any other organization. party, faction
or individual. Ireland owes a debt of gratitude
greater than in her present helpless condition
she can we'll pay, and to the same fearless. tire
less and noble hearted band OF patriots the
English government owes accumulation of
hatred and injustice. born of its humiliation un-
der the repeated triumphs of the quick -witted
leaguers the phlegmatic British
officials. When the coercion bill was
introduced in the House of Commons
Thomas Sexton was reported to have said that
if the National Leage were suppressed in Ire
land it would remove its headquarters to Eng
land, out of the jurisdiction of the coercion act
and continue its work under the shadow of the
palace of Westminster. Little attention was
paid to the remark at the time, if, indeed the
gentleman to whom it was ascribed ever uttered
it, bus the idea quoted as his is likely to be car
ried out on large scale Calmly and quietly,
but determnedly and surely, agents of the
League establishing their branches through
out England, and with the same absence of any
thing indicating the purpose of its leaders, but
with special reference to permanency of loca-
ton, the organization is intrenching itself in
various parts of Ireland where discovery by the
mtnions Of the law will be next to impossible
and at the same time extremely unpleasant, if
not positively unhealthy for the minion that
accidentally stumbles over one of the
retreats. Though. it may be again
said, Ireland much to the National
League there has never been a time since that
organization came forth from the Land League
that its maintenance, its absolute integrity and
its peculiar performance of its particular func-
ton aas been necessary to the peasantry of
Erin as now. when law for its determination is
in the last stages of legislative incubation.
When the men who have for years been perse-
cuted, ostensibly because they were Irishmen,
but really because they we're Catholics find
themselves if not altogether distrusted and on
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head, at least in danger of being used to further
the temporal interests of the church at the
expense of their liberty they naturally cling to
the friend whose every act has been in their
behalf and in furtherance of the end
Of their freedom. To attem pt to prevent
the self-enforcement of this law of human
nature would be as futile as to endeavor to con-
vince the Tory government that it isn't speedily
butting out its brains against the wall of popu-
lar disfavor. The people of Ireland are aware
of the fact that without the National League
they have not friend in the world upon whom
to rely for assistance in their dire extremity and
the men who oppose that body, and who are
themselves OF the people, have shown by the
continued warfare against injustice and oppres-
sion that has marked the existence of the
League, that they may be depended upon to
fight coercion desperately as they have fought
everything in the past. whether legalized or not,
that has threated Irishmen with disaster to their
homes, with the alternative of imprisonment or
flight as the penalty of defending them. The
National League will not be suppressed.